Greatest Best Favorite Avenger Ever: Group D

Marvel’s premiere super-team The Avengers have had more than a hundred members since they first assembled in Stan Lee and Jack Kirby‘s Avengers #1 in 1963. The initial roster of Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man and Wasp has expanded over the decades to include multiple mutants, monsters, gods, aliens, super soldiers, and robots — and the occasional extra Ant-Man, or Iron Man, or Hulk.

With Avengers: Age of Ultron just around the corner, interest in these heroes has never been greater, so we’ve decided to pit all the official comic book Avengers against each other in a battle for your affections. Who is the greatest, best, favorite Avenger of all time? Only you can decide.

We’ve created voting groups that mix up different eras of Avengers membership. Group D features a couple of big brains, a Hulk (not that one) a Torch (not that one), a magic-wielding doctor (not that one), and the very first of the Avengers women. The two or three most popular Avengers will go through from each group, so you’re encouraged to vote tactically.

Amadeus Cho

Created by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa

First joined the team in Mighty Avengers #21 (March 2009)

Smartest person in the room (usually)

Loves dogs, also monsters

Rafael Albuquerque

Doctor Anthony Druid

Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

First joined the team in Avengers #278 (April 1987)

The Sorceror Subordinate

If you're gonna druid, druid right

Tom Grummett

Henry McCoy/Beast

Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

First joined the team in Avengers #151 (September 1976)

Mathlete

Routinely reupholstered

Played by Steve Bacic, Kelsey Grammar, Nicholas Hoult

Doc Shaner

Izzy Kane/Smasher

Created by Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opena

First joined the team in Avengers vol. 5 #1 (December 2012)

Girl who wears glasses

Legally not the granddaughter of Dan Dare

Jung-Geun Yoon

Janet Van Dyne/Wasp

Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Co-founded the team in Avengers #1 (September 1963)

Shrinks. Grows. Sews! (Sewing is cool.)

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant?

To be played by nobody ever, because life is cruel

Jim Hammond/Human Torch

Created by Carl Burgos

First joined the team in Avengers West Coast #50 (November 1989)

Burning plastic

One of the first ever superheroes to get mostly forgotten

Mukesh Singh

Thunderbolt Ross/Red Hulk

Created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuiness

First joined the team in Avengers vol. 4 #12 (June 2011)

Hulk (red)

Party trick: Sucking in his moustache

Played by Sam Elliott and William Hurt

Ed McGuiness, Dexter Vines

Vance Astrovik/Justice

Created by Don Heck and Gerry Conway

First joined the team in Avengers vol. 3 #4 (May 1998)

Telekinetic

Avenger, mutant, New Warrior, Guardian of the Galaxy, and he still can't find a team